Trisetella didyma (Luer) Luer 1980 SECTION Trisetella SUBSECTION Triaristella
Photo courtesy of Walter Teague
Photo by The Orchid Society of France Northern Section
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Twinned Trisetella [refers to the pair of approximate tails of the lateral sepals]
Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm] tall
Found in southern Ecuador in cloudforests at elevations of 1450 to 2500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erectramicauls enveloped baslly by 2 to 3, thin tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, dark green, suffused with purple beneath, acute to subacute leaf and blooms in the spring and summer on a slender, erect to suberect, 1.8" to 3.6" [4.5 to 9 cm] long, inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul and having 2 to 3, successive flowers one at a time.
Synonyms *Masdevallia didyma Luer 1978; Triaristella [Luer] Luer 1978; Triaristellina didyma [Luer] Rauschert 1983
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VI Systematics of Pleurothallis subgen Ancipita, Scopula and Trisetella Luer 1989 drawing fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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